5/29/2023 0 Comments Jasper jones book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jasper Jones has accrued an impressive number of awards and nominations, and the book appears on many school syllabuses. ‘He was very intriguing to me, but he felt distant and inscrutable and I couldn’t quite access him – so a little bit like Charlie in the book I followed Jasper out to where he took us.’ The result was a novel that used Jasper as the lynchpin to explore Australia’s relationship with racism, prejudice and stifled potential.Īlmost ten years later, this impulse to follow the story has brought Silvey pretty much everything a novelist could hope for. The titular Jasper ‘kind of just emerged in my brain and wouldn’t let me be,’ Silvey explains, when we meet a few days ahead of the film’s Australian release. The novel’s conception is an interesting case of art imitating life. So begins Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones, the award-winning novel that has inspired a series of stage productions around the country, and now a feature film directed by Rachel Perkins and starring Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving. It’s after dark, and Charlie Bucktin hears a tapping on his window – Jasper Jones, the town outcast and go-to scapegoat is asking Charlie to follow him into the night. ![]()
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